MUNCIE, Ind. — Late voting in Yorktown-area precincts — thanks to heavy turnout there but not everywhere else — made the finale for Election Day a nail-biter.

But even with the interest in the race for the White House between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, voting in Delaware County didn't top the totals from the past two presidential races.

According to the totals released by the county clerk's office, with all 78 local precincts counted, 46,266 people voted on Tuesday and in early voting. That left turnout at 50.83 percent.

By comparison, turnout in 2008 was 56 percent, with 50,964 people voting. In 2012, turnout was 51.39 percent with 45,661 voting.

Trump won Delaware County, as he did in the spring primary election. Trump had 24,217 votes on Tuesday for 53.3 percent, compared to Clinton's 18,100 for just under 40 percent.

Yorktown was where the action was Tuesday. At many polling places, voters had to wait more than an hour to vote. That kind of turnout somewhat slowed the voting process in other parts of Delaware County, but in Yorktown, voters were casting ballots more than an hour after the polls closed at 6 p.m.

Even though interest in the election was high, as voting began Tuesday, Delaware County election officials said early, or absentee, voting didn't top the high level of interest in 2008.

County Clerk Mike King told The Star Press late Monday that 10,345 early, or absentee, ballots were issued in Delaware County and 10,035 had been received so far. That included the ballots of people who have been voting — after waiting in lines of an hour and a half or more — in the election office at the Delaware County Building but did not include some mail-in ballots that have until mid-day to arrive. That falls short of the 11,242 early ballots from the 2008 election but tops the 8,430 in 2012. Like most presidential election years, those years brought heavy voter interest.

Voters came out to vote Tuesday at 78 precincts at 57 polling sites.

Emma Kate Fittes also contributed to this report.

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